Benjamin Poulter

Research Statement

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Benjamin Poulter's indexed work centers on the terrestrial carbon cycle and its climate feedbacks, particularly where semi-arid ecosystems drive interannual variability in the global carbon cycle—a first-author study whose 1,444 citations mark it as a touchstone in the field. A parallel thread concerns wetland methane emissions as a driver of 21st-century climate change, developed in a senior-author paper, and the global wetland contribution to atmospheric methane growth rates, which he led. He has also shaped how Earth system models represent vegetation, notably through plant functional type classification and mapping for land-surface schemes. Beyond these, he contributed as a middle author to large community efforts, including the Global Methane Budget and the Global Carbon Budget series, and to the greening of the Earth and its drivers. His senior-authored Wetland Area and Dynamics for Methane Modeling (WAD2M) dataset and land-use harmonization datasets for annual global carbon budgets show a sustained commitment to open, model-ready data products. Collaborations with Christopher R. Schwalm and Charles D. Koven connect this work to broader carbon-cycle and Earth-system modeling communities. Across these outputs, the throughline is a career spent linking wetland and land-surface processes to the global carbon and methane budgets.

Most Cited Works

Greening of the Earth and its drivers

Zaichun Zhu, Shilong L. Piao, Ranga B. Myneni, Mengtian Huang, Zhenzhong Zeng, Josep G. Canadell, Philippe Ciais, Stephen A. Sitch, Pierre Friedlingstein, Almut Arneth, Chunxiang Cao, Lei Cheng, Etsushi Kato, Charles D. Koven, Yue Li, Xu Lian, Yongwen Liu, Ronggao Liu, Jiafu Mao, Yaozhong Pan, Shushi Peng, Josep Peñuelas, Benjamin Poulter, Thomas A. M. Pugh, Benjamin David Stocker, Nicolas Viovy, Xuhui Wang, Ying‐Ping Wang, Zhiqiang Xiao, Hui Yang, Sönke Zaehle, Ning Zeng

Nature Climate Change

Research Areas

Atmospheric and Environmental Gas DynamiPlant Water Relations and Carbon DynamicClimate variability and modelsSoil Carbon and Nitrogen DynamicsPeatlands and Wetlands Ecology

Affiliations & Education

Employment

2016–present· now
NASA(US)

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Research Statement

Most Cited Works

Greening of the Earth and its drivers

Research Areas

Affiliations & Education

Employment

The Global Methane Budget 2000–2017

Global Carbon Budget 2020

Plant responses to rising vapor pressure deficit

Three decades of global methane sources and sinks